Forbes Magazine, The History

Writen by David Chase

One of the most widely respected and important American publications of the last century is Forbes Magazine. Forbes Magazine was founded in 1917 by Scottish immigrant B.C. Forbes (who was, at the time, the leading columnist for the Hearst newspaper chain). Forbes was born in Aberdeen shire in Scotland and moved from Johannesburg, South Africa to New York performing various editorial and writing gigs just before he founded this vastly important business publication.

Forbes is published bi-weekly and contains up to 60 original and concisely-written articles in each issue which evaluate everything from the companies to the people that run them and has both a politically conservative and pro-business slant. Some of the topics covered in each and every issue of Forbes include articles on the worlds of industry, finance, international business, marketing, law, taxes, science, technology, communications, investments, entrepreneurships, etc. More than 5 million readers worldwide (and seven local-language editions) can attest to the longevity of this publication for the business world.

Coming up on its 90th Anniversary in 2007, the Forbes Empire remains one of the largest and most successful family businesses of its kind in the world. Steve Forbes, once a political candidate for President of the United States of America, is the magazine’s Editor-in-Chief and has a column in each and every issue called “Fact and Comment” which is quite popular with Forbes readers.

Each and every year, Forbes publishes its very popular list of the richest people and the biggest companies on Earth (who also, by the way, subscribe to this most accomplished publication). Absolutely no merger, ad campaign or lawsuit of importance on the planet goes unnoticed by Forbes Magazine and the stories in each issue will always vividly focus on the movers and financial innovators that are shaking things up in the business world. Forbes is also the best of the business periodicals that are published today for discovering new investment ideas and more investor focused than other business magazines. So, if you want to make sense of today’s incredibly volatile market, then read and you will be as enlightened as the giants of this most respected of industries are

Don’t purchase a Magazine Subscription through my site, you wouldn’t want to see my ugly mug on Forbes Magazine next top richest people in the world list.

Jesus Was an Illegal Alien Too

Writen by Lance Winslow

Many people may not realize this, but did you know that Jesus was an illegal alien too? Think of it. He really was wasn’t he? You know at first I did not believe it either, I thought to my self this cannot be real, until I saw him there. That’s right folks;

As a matter of fact I saw him yesterday. As he finally got his fake IDs and he is now the assistant manager at McDonalds, but his 12 disciples still work at the local car wash I am told. I know he still works at McDonalds because he threw me out for food fighting yesterday morning. I agued with him because that egg mc Muffin tasted more like rubber than food, so I am not sure I was food fighting, so then I saw his name tag and said “Oh Crap its Jesus” I stopped arguing in Spanish and left, I think I may still get into heaven? What do you think? Never argue with Jesus!

I just wanted to go back and tell Jesus that it was not really food fighting, in fact it takes two to fight and the guy I hit as a Frisbeed my egg mc Muffin paddy, never threw anything back at me? So, that was not actually a food fight you see? So I called McDonalds Corporate to complain and they said I could not go back anymore to that location, not even the drive thru. I inquired about dressing as a little kid and going into the PlayPlace but they said I am too tall now? So, I am now worried when I get to heaven if Jesus will throw me out again? What do you think?

Lance Winslow

25 Signs You May Be A Health Freak

Writen by Josh Stone

1. You start mixing your coffee, tea, horlicks, etc - in a shaker.
2. You try to order a protein shake at the cafe.
3. You warm up for 15 mins before you go to bed with your partner.
4. You try to exorcise the 6-pack of beer you have in the fridge.
5. You carry your own low-calorie sweetener in your pocket at all times.
6. A trip to the mall is never complete without visiting a sports/GNC outlet.
7. You wear your gym shoes to the office/work.
8. More than half your clothes are from NIKE/ADIDAS.
9. You remember the names of all the Personal Trainers at your gym.
10. Your heart skips a beat everytime you enter a pharmacy.
11. Your lunch bears a strange resemblance to rabbit food.
12. You’ve watched the entire series of Rocky movies again and again.
13. You know the phone number of your gym by heart.
14. Your shop for groceries more often than your partner. And she’s the woman.
15. At McDonalds, you remove the meat, squeeze out the oil with the help of some serviettes, place the meat back into the burger, and then eat it.
16. You know more about vitamins than the staff at the pharmacy.
17. A part of your home smells like a pharmacy.
18. You forget what white bread tastes like.
19. You’re subscribed to at least ONE health-related mailing list on the web.
20. You’re reading this right now.
21. You look forward to your workouts much more than a night out with friends - at a club filled with hot, sweaty women/men (depending on your preference).
22. Your dog always seems more tired than you after you take it for a walk.
23. You check theyogainstructordiaries.blogspot.com every single day to see if she has updated her site or not.
24. You visit EGOnutritions every other day to see whats on offer.. only to realise that they only update their site once in every 2 weeks. Sometimes longer!
25. You are subscribed to my email update.

Josh Stone, also known as DM, is the author behind the site http://www.dailymuscle.com which offers the author’s personal views on real-life fitness, bodybuilding, sports nutrition, cardio, fat loss, training information, and on all things that surrounds fitness.

Is Timing the Secret of Success?

Writen by Elizabeth White

Success is often viewed as a magic potion. Market demand has always been there, but no-one has worked out the recipe or how to bottle it.

On further investigation the ingredients are not that easy to replicate and include: determination, enthusiasm, perseverance, stamina, hard work and a focus bordering on obsession. Yet there is often one other ingredient that successful people in all walks of life mention - being in the right place at the right time. Sometimes this alone is enough; sometimes without this single ingredient none of the other qualities will count.

Given the importance of this ingredient, how can it be bottled and handed out for the benefit of us all? Whilst success can never be guaranteed, there are tools which can significantly increase the possibility of being in the right place at the right time. Astrology is one of them.

Astrology? What, horoscopes? Is this some kind of joke? No, not at all. Ask yourself why millions of people read their horoscopes, even though the advice they contain is highly generalised and not especially useful. Somewhere deep inside we know that having advance knowledge of the future will enable us to be more effective and to have ‘the edge’. Forewarned as they say, is forearmed.

So what is it that astrology can predict and how can it enable you to be in the right place at the right time? Firstly it is a great predictor of trends. The growth of computing, the impact of technology on the film and music industries and the expansion of international travel could all be predicted by astrology. If you can spot a trend in advance, you are well placed to take advantage of it.

Knowing your time, date and place of birth allows you to understand and predict cycles that are unique to you. The natal chart will also reveal the areas of life in which you are most likely to achieve success. This can help ensure that energy is focussed into areas where it will produce the most effective results.

We all spend time developing skills and expertise in our line of work. If motivated, we may also try to develop ourselves in other ways. In the age of the self-help book, there is no shortage of advice and it can be hard to know what to do first and what will be most beneficial. Nothing works for everyone, but spending time wisely is essential. It is your most valuable resource.

Reading your horoscope is not really going to help you, but understanding the underlying principles and learning some basic astrology could be more useful than you think. If time is your most valuable asset and timing is the secret of success, don’t dismiss astrology out of hand. It has been used by people in positions of power for centuries.

Whenever a famous person, be they a President or a member of the Royal Family, is known to have consulted an astrologer, the popular press turns them into a laughing stock. All kinds of jokes are made in the media, but the people who use astrology don’t really mind. The less people who use it, the more of an advantage they have. When you hold the magic potion in your hand, you really don’t mind whether other people believe it or not.

About The Author

Elizabeth White has been practising Astrology for over 15 years and is the author of an introductory Astrology course.

http://www.horoscope-master.com

Booger-Brain: Teenagers Are At It Again

Writen by Pamela Beers

They’re at it again; teenagers and their fractured language! It is getting progressively more difficult for me to keep a straight face when I work with them. I reviewed basic grammar with a group of three teenage boys, as I usually do this time of year, to prepare them for the state ELA exam. I had a tough time not laughing.

For the rest of you who have forgotten the rules…it’s grammar lesson time! In case you didn’t know, proper nouns are capitalized, such as the name of a particular person (Elvis Presley), place (Toronto), or thing (Moby Dick). Common nouns name classes of people (singers), places (cities), or things (books) and are not capitalized.

It is very difficult to get a junior high school student (ages 12 - 14) to grasp that concept. They just don’t comprehend the difference between a proper noun and a common noun no matter how creatively you try to teach it. They think dinosaur-breath and booger-brain should be capitalized. I keep trying to tell them that those words are not proper nouns, and therefore do not need to be capitalized. In fact, they are not even proper words to use in mixed company.

Then again, maybe we could add those words to the proper noun list and send it to the upcoming fifth edition of Strunk and White’s, “The Elements of Style”.

Personally, I think teenagers should have their own book on rules of usage when writing. It would put state education standards on a whole new level.

Copyright © 2006 by Pamela Beers. All rights reserved.

Pamela Beers is a freelance writer, educator, and horse trainer who works with K-12 students individually or in small groups. For more information on New York State standards you can visit her website at http://www.pamelabeers.com

Read This Article If You Just Really Want to Run Away

Writen by Lance Winslow

Remember the Run-Away Bride? Do you ever feel like that sometimes? Many people cannot believe that she ran away like that, yet deep inside you understand why don’t you? In fact the fight or flight response is a human mechanism, which is an innate characteristic of mankind. It runs deep in the primitive part of the Homo Sapien Brain.

Some believe that this mechanism is why the human species rose above other species and took the dominant role as top of the food chain for land surface mammals. Indeed, if you feel like you just really want to run away sometimes you are not alone and that thought runs deep in all people, regardless of nationality, culture, race, age or region of the world one lives.

If you think back in some of the problems that plagued out early ancestors you can see that those who ran away, lived to fight another day. And another way to say this is to observe that those who avoided being killed by an invading army, Volcano, Typhoon, Hurricane, Tsunami, Locust Plague or wild animals hunting in packs in a region moved to safer ground and lived longer lives and had more offspring, thus this is why you are here today.

So the chances of you considering the flight response when frustrated, angered or threatened are a factor of that genetic truth and evolutionary cycle. Therefore if you really feel like you would just really want to run away, that is perfectly natural and to over come that response to such stimuli you can only do that via brainpower. Think on this.

Lance Winslow

Marilyn Monroe and Mary Jo Kopechne

Writen by Robert Baird

I doubt Marilyn Monroe was anything but a confused star-struck drug-using individual with some gifts and talents that the Kennedy boys enjoyed. But she may have been so obsessed with them that she would have threatened to tell some of what she knew and she did have the attention of the people and media. There was a general lack of knowledge about the nature of JFK’s drug use and sexual shenanigans even after his death. It would not surprise me if this was managed and agreed to, or asked for by the Kennedy clan. They still value their image even though Old Joe has been exposed on Arts & Entertainment. Maybe Maria Shriver and Arnold will make a run for the Presidency. It is important to note that Mary Jo Kopechne figures into the issue in a big way however. Maybe she intended to leak a lot more about the Kennedy clan.

“Smathers also betrayed JFK over Marilyn Monroe. According to Sarah Churchill’s recently published book, The Many Lives of Marilyn Monroe (2004), it was Smathers who first leaked the story to the press about the affair. The story first appeared in an article by Dorothy Kilgallen the day before Monroe died (Kilgallen was herself to die in similar circumstances as Monroe on 8th November, 1965).

Why should Smathers do this? One possibility is that Smathers was trying to link JFK with Monroe’s death. According to Matthew Smith’s Victim: The Secret Tapes of Marilyn Monroe (2003) the CIA was involved in a plot to implicate the Kennedys in Monroe’s death as punishment for the Bay of Pigs disaster.

If Smathers was involved in any conspiracy to kill JFK one would expect those close to him like Grant Stockdale {Mobbed-up vending-machine owner who was in a position to expose many things after JFK’s death and who was eliminated.} to find out about it. One person who might have discovered what was going on was his secretary, Mary Jo Kopechne, and her flat mate, Nancy Carole Tyler, who was Bobby Baker’s secretary. According to Penn Jones, it was Kopechne and Tyler who leaked the story about JFK replacing LBJ by Smathers as vice president. {I have no doubt about LBJ’s involvement in the assassination of JFK.}

Nancy Carole Tyler died in a plane crash, near Ocean City, Maryland, on 10th May, 1965.

Kopechne went on to become Robert Kennedy’s secretary. She was to die in Edward Kennedy’s car on 18th July, 1969.” (1)

Author of Diverse Druids, Columnist for The ES Press Magazine, Guest writer for World-Mysteries.com

Word Play: Flies That Zip Or Flies That Fly?

Writen by Pamela Beers

The word "fly" is a homograph. Homographs are words that are spelled the same but have different meanings and different origins. For example, there is the fly on your pants, referred to as a zipper, and that pesky winged insect that makes annoying buzzing sounds.

Why is it that the only time I forget to zip up my pants is when I’m trying to impress a potential client? It always happens when I’m rushed for time and is only noticed when I see people staring at the area below my waist where polite people don’t usually stare. When I look down to see what people are looking at, I notice part of my shirttail poking out the front of my slacks. Usually clients have a sense of humor and laugh more at the color of my face (which by now is crimson from embarrassment) than at the unzipped fly.

The other fly is that pesky winged critter that makes annoying whirring, humming sounds until it lands. I like the ones that are musical with their varying droning pitches of incessant buzzing. The flight of the flies usually takes place on a hot summer night around 2 a.m. waking me from a sound sleep. At that point, I am usually up looking for the fly swatter (no, I’m not going to swat zippers) so that I can squash that intolerable noise. It turns out, this summer, I didn’t need a fly swatter after all. When a fly landed on me, it bit me. The poor thing dropped over dead on the floor. It must have been that jalapeno pepper I had with dinner.

Have fun with words. Just remember, keep your fly zipped, and learn to enjoy jalapeno peppers because I’ve discovered that they kill the other kind…flies that is.

Copyright © 2005 by Pamela Beers. All rights reserved.

Pamela Beers is a freelance writer, and educator who is a platinum ezine article expert. You may visit her website at http://www.pamelabeers.com for writing and marketing tips.

The Theory of Names

Writen by Sharon White

Within this paper I shall focus on explanatory and underlying theories of names, will also concentrate on the referential theory and the background it provides for Kripke’s causal picture.

According to referential theory, the meaning of a name just is the individual entity the name refers to, within its context of use. Kripke challenges the context of use; identifying speaker disposition and introducing the variable of other possible worlds. He uses the descriptive theory to pinpoint criticisms and create his own ‘better picture’ of preferentiality of names. His specific criticisms and alternative examples examine the way in which original and subsequent users refer, with the question of what makes the usage of a name refer specific to the individual/entity it does. Tracing meaning back to its origins is highlighted to be the most reliable way of posing a theory of how the meaning of a name is transmitted. He introduces the concept of ‘initial baptism’; an intentional naming through conscious pinpointing of an object and assigning it a name. Kripke suggests that the object need not necessarily fulfil the appropriate descriptive content for the name to refer to it and that descriptions restrict possibilities of the referentiality of names. Kripke’s account, then, most certainly contrasts with a descriptive theory, which states that names can refer to objects when a set of descriptive properties is fulfilled, thus, the descriptivist would believe there to be properties associated with each proper name that identify the possessor by means of the description itself.

Searle investigates the possession of a ’sense’ by proper names, posing two disjunctive criteria for an object to possess sense: Firstly, having the usage of providing description or specifying qualities of objects, and secondly, having the property of being logically linked to qualities of the object they refer to. He concluded proper names not to possess ’sense’ at all, according to the first criteria and that possession occurs “In a loose sort of way” for the second.

Kripke chose Donnellan’s descriptive cluster theory to structure his criticisms upon. Donnellan’s theory could be viewed as the most solid and comprehensive cluster theory of the time. I would suggest that Kripke embarked upon the challenge of criticising this particular theory, knowing that it could be broken down successfully to present his arguments in an organised and powerful way. On a more critical note, this organisation of what he considered to be strong condemnation acted in some way as compensation for the fact that his own causal pictures has many flaws itself. Kripke evaluated the strength of descriptive theory with partial success, before formulating his causal theory of names, which suggest that we learn the referents of names from the previous user in the ‘causal chain’ of reference for that particular name. My hypothesis of how his descriptive criticisms provide a basis for his own causal theory is that Kripke gained inspiration from Strawson’s claims about a ‘non-infinite regress’ and decided that pursuing an infinite regress was the only way to properly explain the nature of the referent of a name and its communication between individuals. Kripke’s attack on the descriptive cluster theory of names can be divided into three groups, namely, epistemic, semantic and modal arguments.

Up Chuck

Writen by Kenneth C. Hoffman

We all know relatives who can’t cook. Not that we are experts in culinary delicacies, but when an inedible concoction hits your plate with a thud, it takes some special manners and facial control to compliment your host.

An in-law of my wife’s who has since passed away, mentioned proudly that dumplings would be part of the coming feast at her house. Misshapen, gray lumps of congealed flour and water sank immediately to the bottom of the soup, lying there like raw clay ready for working. Only by dividing these door stops in tiny pieces were they swallowed at all, being quickly sloshed past our taste buds with the wickedest of wines. Unsurprisingly, no-one took seconds.

While not strictly a relative, a well-meaning neighbor lady repaid any and all favors done her with a beautifully wrapped dozen of her own home-made cookies. Better named ‘conversation stoppers’, one cookie could dry out your mouth for fifteen minutes. Only wild pointing at the rest room and effort to smile through powdered lips could save you from decorating the table with a shotgun of wheat pellets. Sneakily taking out the garbage at three in the morning, we had to remember to thank our kindly bakery chefs the next day for their delicious contribution.

One newly-wed couple rendered a barely edible meal of sawdust meat loaf and marblized beans, unfortunately followed by a carrot cake made with still-raw carrots, easily identified in each slice. She apoligised for the slightly burned crust on the meatloaf, but her young husband sincerely complimented her with the statement that it reminded him of his Mom’s recipe. A blue gelatin dessert filled a bowl like a country lake with little plastic ducks floating on top. Luckily the extra water in the mix made it possible for the ducks to actually swim.

The other night, my wife (who is a superb cook) miscalculated the cooking time for the ravioli, bringing new meaning the to phrase, al dente. I’m still chewing. On the other hand, some diners have not a kind word for the chef especially when the dishes are undeniably delicious. Even after three helpings and much smacking of lips and uncovered belches, these gourmands have only a ‘Menza, menza” or ‘It was O.K.” to say. Next time I hope they go to MacDonald’s.

Love to write, paint (graphicly), and eat.